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Henry Mancini’s Pink Panther Theme gets The 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic treatment in this arrangement by Wilhelm Kaiser-Lindemann.
This performance was filmed in the Great Hall of the Tchaikovsky Conservatory at the First Moscow International Cello Festival in 2008.
The cellists are:

In this video, the Banff Competition winning Dover Quartet performs the Adagio from Samuel Barber’s String Quartet in B Minor, op.11 – a piece which has gone on to achieve huge popularity in its string orchestra arrangement as the Adagio for Strings.

The Borodin Quartet and Fine Arts Quartet combine to perform Mendelssohn’s Octet.
The performance was filmed live on 20 July 1990 at the Festival de St-Riquier, Baie de Somme, France, in the Saint Riquier Abbey.

In this performance filmed live at the Wissembourg Festival in September 2014, the Quatuor Ebène play Arnold Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht.
The quartet’s regular members, Pierre Colombet, Gabriel Le Magadure (violin), Mathieu Herzog (viola) and Raphaël Merlin (cello) are joined by Arnaud Thorette

Filmmaker Christopher Nupen about the film:
‘In 1969 five young musicians, all of them still relatively unknown to the general public - but destined to become international artists of the highest rank - came together to play Schubert’s Trout Quintet in the new Queen Elizabeth Hall, on the south

This performance of Tomás Luis de Victoria’s O Magnum Mysterium arranged for four cellos was filmed at Alice Tully Hall in April 2017 in a Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center concert.
The cellists are David Finckel, Sarina Zhang, Dmitri Atapine, and Sumire Kudo.

It sounds like the members of the Chiaroscuro Quartet, led by Alina Ibragimova, have been having some airline trouble – although for a change this isn’t related to taking their instruments as hand luggage but rather the disappearance of their hold luggage.